Improvement in lasts



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` mouth and State of Massachusetts, havemade declare that the followingis arfull,elear,\and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanyingdrawingjs, making. .part ottti'sspecitcation, in'which+vi provement attached theretof-"Fijgfisaview -sothat it may be taken ottand be replaced by desired, to accommodate the changes inV j ,stand anduse my invention, I will now proi ceed to describethe manner in which Ihave f carried it out.

apo'tion of the toe of which is cut away, .leaving a projection ortenen, B, to which is adapted a removable toe-piece, G, which is fflnade of brass or other suitable material.;

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HENRY M. WErriinirtsni, or AEINGTO'N, MASSACHUSETTS, Assrenon :to y

HIMSELF AND MERITT NASH, OF SAME PLACE,

.IMPROVEMENT N LASTS. i

Specification forming part ot' Letters Patent No.44,266, dated Septembeil?! 18e; y'

Be it known that I, 'HENRY M. WHIT- MARSH, ot' Abington, -in -the countyof Plyacertain -new and uset'ul Improvementin Lasts lfor Boots andShoes; and I- hereby 'r Eigene-is anew of a. last Showing my imof aroundtoe-piece-detached. Fig. 3 is avertical 'longitudinal section throughFig. 1, and Fig'. 4 is a' view of a square toe-'piece detached.` Owingto the frequent changes made in the form of the toes ot' boots andshoes,git has been necessary touse alast of dii'erentshape every timethe style was changed, and ,conse-l quently these changes of style were'attended with considerable expense to the shoe-manufacturer. A r Theobject of my improvement is to reduce this expense; and it consists inmaking that part of the last which forms the toe removable,

one of a di'ereut pattern with facility, when lt'ashion. Io enableothers skilled in theart to under- In the said drawings, A represents alast- The interior. ottheQtoe-piece C is.beveled to correspondto' theform of the lprojection 15,-. and is secured i-n-place by means of oneor more screws, a.. It will thus be seen that when themanufactfurerwishes to make a boot `of a different pattern at the toe-it is onlynecessarygto unscrew and remove one toe-piece and substitute 'anotherof'thestyle required.

By'thu's having the toe-piece removable thel expense of lastsvoccasioned by thealteration in the fashion of the boot `is less than'one,-

thirdet that-which iti-has usnallyrbeemwhen it wasnecessary to use 'anew last altogether.; By my said invention I am also enabled to utilizelasts which have been discard ed on account of the variation of thestyle by simply providing them with toe-pieces of the required form, andlasts which have been broken or. defaced at the toe by use may betrimmed down and my .improvement adapted thereto.

' I do not confine myself to any particular me- Y chanicalconstructionof the toe-piece and last,

as it is evident that, insteadof the toe-piece beine; made asrepresented,it may consist of a solid piece with a projecting tenen,while the last may be provided with a corresponding What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent as ,an improvement inlasts for boots and shoes, iS-' A toe-piece made separate from the bodyof the last, so that .it may be removed and another of di'erent formsubstituted, substantially as described, for the purpose set forth. lHENRDY M. WHITMAR-SH'.

'Witnesses:

THOMAS P. LITGHEIELD, BENJ. WQRMELL.

